a. [f. FIBRIN + -OUS.] a. Full of or composed of fibrin. b. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of fibrin.

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1830.  R. Knox, Béclard’s Anat., 305. At this age [childhood] also, the muscular flesh is less red, and more gelatinous and fibrinous than in adult age; the motions are easy, quick, and weak.

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1834.  J. Forbes, Laennec’s Dis. Chest, 563. The fibrinous concretions were softer, consequently of more recent formation.

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1872.  T. G. Thomas, Dis. Women, 512. About the very existence of the fibrinous polypus there is some doubt.

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  Hence Fibrinosity, the quality of being fibrinous.

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1876.  Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 228. Schmidt has examined … 93 transudates with respect to their fibrinosity.

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